What a wacky two weeks its been! Sorry I've neglected you readers this long. Sometimes though, a man's just gotta make a living! These markets have been roiling so heavily, that I barely had time for lunch.<\/p>\n
Hopefully most of you have taken a glance at my portfolios. If anybody has ever had any doubts about whether trading beats a buy-and-hold strategy, take a glance at this year's results to date: My 3-stock portfolio is up by 41% since last March, which translates into a 98% annualized return. Just in case you think its pure luck, look at the 6-stock portfolio of growth stocks (and the QQQ index): in two months, it's grown 21%. If I can keep that pace for a year, that would yield 118%.<\/p>\n
By the way, I finally got around to adding the growth portfolio to the web site. Just click on the \"Portfolio Tab\" , then towards the bottom of the page you'll see the link for growth stock portfolio (6-10 stocks)<\/a>. If you peruse the history a bit, you'll notice something that may strike you as very odd: in absolute numbers, I lose money more often than I make it. But this is more than offset by the size of my gains when compared to that of my losses. <\/p>\n This particular strategy will always do that: I get 2-3 small losses, usually in the 1-3% range, followed by 1 big gain, usually in the 5%-25% range. Then the whole process starts all over again. So far over all times frames I've tested it, this has been the pattern through flat, bull and bear markets.<\/p>\n Of course I would love to eliminate the losses, but so far, whenever I try to tweak the system to reduce these, I end up lowering the overall performance. I'll keep on tinkering with it, but in the meantime, I'll learn to live with the frequent small losses, as long as I get the big number at the end. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a wacky two weeks its been! Sorry I’ve neglected you readers this long. Sometimes though, a man’s just gotta make a living! These markets have been roiling so heavily, that I barely had time for lunch. Hopefully most of you have taken a glance at my portfolios. If anybody has ever had any doubts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradejolt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSimilarly, to view the trading history for it, select the \"Trade History\" tab, then at the bottom look for the link to the Alternate Growth Portfolio History<\/a>.<\/p>\n